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i'm in a patient to urban environment. i love it. that's why i'm studying. it is a basket of opportunity. i went public schools my whole life and, you know, it was from like the teacher who said, you might like doing this and spend time after school and introduce me to an excellent opportunity or someone that stayed after school with me that went through different topics they didn't understand or from my debate coach in high school, you know, who not get paid but spend an extra six hours, you know, per week to coaching us. these are all thicks i found made the character of my life. nay all happened not by by way of large institution. not way of something far and distance. there was any local experience. this is what i found in sort of this homely city. you often here the characterization of cities or urban environments as sorts of get lost there's nothing impersonal. this is not has been my experience. this is what i think the local represents. in returning to what i find to be the theme is that cities and local politics a
i'm in a patient to urban environment. i love it. that's why i'm studying. it is a basket of opportunity. i went public schools my whole life and, you know, it was from like the teacher who said, you might like doing this and spend time after school and introduce me to an excellent opportunity or someone that stayed after school with me that went through different topics they didn't understand or from my debate coach in high school, you know, who not get paid but spend an extra six hours, you...
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think of the impact it would have on the environment, the ability to create jobs here in nevada. let's always go back to the jobs and the ability to create jobs in america. i believe the sage grouse gets listed. i do. you need a senator that will fight back and realize and understand that talk to this administration and say if you reelect a we're in trouble. it will be a big, big concern. spent our next question comes from -- >> congresswoman berkley, in 2008 you wrote a letter to representative peter stark who chaired the house subcommittee over medicare, urging them to oppose lowering medicare rates for dialysis. why in a letter did you not point out that your husband is a kidney specialist which could be a potential conflict of interest? berkley: my one and only concern was to protect the health and well being of the people of the state of nevada. that is my job. now, i wrote a letter to pete stark, but i sit on the same committee with them and i've known him for six years. he knows exactly what my husband did, does. let me tell you something. i know my opponent has attacked m
think of the impact it would have on the environment, the ability to create jobs here in nevada. let's always go back to the jobs and the ability to create jobs in america. i believe the sage grouse gets listed. i do. you need a senator that will fight back and realize and understand that talk to this administration and say if you reelect a we're in trouble. it will be a big, big concern. spent our next question comes from -- >> congresswoman berkley, in 2008 you wrote a letter to...
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if you create an environment where they want to be, education nation, i saw a video, massachusetts and it is unbelievable. 24 different career choices and veterinarian clinic. 16 day auto shop. the list goes on but it is different. not more of the same. there's one thing in the report that i think although it wasn't the focus is so important and it was mentioned by both analysts, the early intervention. i am a believer in systems. you can't take a piece of a whole system. even change dramatically one piece and assume the whole thing will change. i don't believe that is true. the thing about public education in america that is troubling to me is when they say no system can produce anything other than what it was designed to produce. in this country when we graduate 75% of the kids year after year after year unless you are african-american or hispanic is closer to 50% as the report points out the rate doesn't fluctuate like the dow jones average. it is constant because the system was designed to do that. what we have to do is talk about what changes in the system have to occur so that we
if you create an environment where they want to be, education nation, i saw a video, massachusetts and it is unbelievable. 24 different career choices and veterinarian clinic. 16 day auto shop. the list goes on but it is different. not more of the same. there's one thing in the report that i think although it wasn't the focus is so important and it was mentioned by both analysts, the early intervention. i am a believer in systems. you can't take a piece of a whole system. even change...